Just wanted to let you know I was about to sell all my fpv stuff and go back to the regular dji drones until I watched some of you informational videos and got all the bugs out of the tx16s and the 3 drones I bought. I now can fly and crash, fix. Thanks Joshua bardwell. Love flying outside and inside.

Absolutely loved the "Everything takes 500 times longer" song. Thanks for the video Joshua!

Bardwell, always coming in clutch when I need him!

If anybody is confused with how it looks on Betaflight 4.2 heres what I found in an arcticle: "Betaflight changed the way LQ is displayed in Betaflight 4.2. Now it shows the RFMD value (0-2) followed by the LQ value (0-99). While the RFMD value is at 2 (150Hz latency mode) you don’t even need to worry about the LQ value. Once the RFMD values drops down to 1 (50Hz latency mode) you need to start paying attention to the LQ value because anything below 80 while in RFMD 1 is warning territory and 70 is in the critical danger zone (you need to turn back immediately). If you ever see an RFMD value of 0 then your quad is already falling from the sky."

Woohooo! This is great, and a spare channel too! Hope we get power level widget next.

The song at 2:19 is hilarious. I don't have crossfire (yet) and that made this video soo worth it.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing JB!

it totaly working with my P16 , and TBS tango2 , thanks so much

Fantastic, Joshua! Thanks a lot! 😃 Kudos for Brain FPV!

had to find this to be able to sort out the elrs LQ and RSSI, thanks Joshua.

Thank you !! a true healer. a problem = bardwell = no problem 😁 thank you for all this sharing 💯👌 hello from France

Your videos are the gift that keeps on giving!!! I used this to set up LQ on my new ELRS stuff... Thanks Man! What were the CLI serial port commands? I slowed the video down to watch but didn't really understand what you were doing?

hopefully for inav as well, thx for the vid :)

Awesome! Didn't realized that to enable LQ from Tango 2 radio in Betaflight 4.3 development version too, I must disable anything RSSI related in receiver tab and disable RSSI sending in channel at radio receiver settings. That made both LQ and RSSI readings available in Betaflight OSD. Thanks! Now I wish to see LQ from Betaflight telemetry in DJI googles too. I hope that in some day DJI will update firmware in googles to make all Betaflight telemetry available without crippling something another.

A Crossfire LQ between 300 and 200 means 150 Hz Mode, between 200 and 100 it‘s 50 Hz Mode and then it switches to 4 Hz Mode below 100 LQ

УРААА!! Заработало! Спасибо, Джошуа!

Thanks once again !

Great informational video

Awesome vid JB! Only problem is I fried my quad on a 13,800v power line yesterday! Actually it just fried my ESC, I hope, cause my FC still works I just don't get any beeps. Had to call the fire department out to help get it down but the weren't going near that power line which I didn't blame them. So they shot it off the line with their water hose. Happy to get it back but sad that I have to get another 4in1 ESC also bummed big time that my GoPro didn't record the rescue as it had died right before the fire truck showed up. I felt like a douche but the fireman were really interested in my quad after they noticed the lights were still on after hanging from a power line and getting shot with high pressure water. I showed them the live FPV feed on the new FPV Watch I got from Kwad Box and they were blown away lol! I have a backup though but I don't like the Hypetrain acro motors compared to the Xing motors I have on my goto quad. Guess I'm spoiled now with my Xing motors lol! I'll have the video up on my new FPV Channel at DigiLog FPV.

Waouh thanks Joshua !

Finally i can replace my TBS POWERCUBE FPVISION for long range, Link quality info is whats preventing me from replacing my Powercube, and less wiring too! the only thing missing now is the Miliwatt info of the crossfire module.

You are the best!!!!

YES finaly I will know How much I tuching edge of crosfire :D

Had to find this video it's super relevant now since elrs has come out

Great video thank u.

Thank you!

Crossfire has 3 modes, and it's pretty easy to set up a logical switch for the taranis to beep or chirp when entering mode 1 (100hz) and mode 2 (50hz, no telemetry). Mode 0 is the 150hz connection. Don't know why they ordered them like that but that's it.

your welcome , look at the debug .. it has a lot more ... has warning (blinking) you may wish to tune that . ect.. fyi... i'm the dev that added it . i used it 3.5 and 4.0 bf.. have fun ...

Tu es au top

Thanks!

awesome cheers jb

LMFAOOOO the song JB sings @ 2:19 😂🤣

2:38 me EVERY timmmee🤣😭🤣😭 that was so funny though

Really freaking cool 😎

The best video ! 😆

Best song ever!!!!

1. shave 2. literally googled this yesterday and you made a video today you da man

Eres un chingon... 👍🏻

Hopefully I may be able to set LQ and RSSI up...finally

I cant figure out why my rssi reads 10 even though it still works really good. Shouldnt it say 99 or something?. Is there a way to calibrate the rssi do you know???

I'd be cool to have the module output power too like the radix.. but this is pretty cool

Enabling LQ with a FrSky system (2.4 and 900) will give a number between 9 and 0. A guy on Reddit once said it means "frames" so when it shows 3 you only receive 3 of 9 frames or something but I was never able to confirm that. The value is changing consistently and in accordance with the RSSI.

why you dont have the serial rx switch on at the port tab? i used to think that if i solder my rx and tx on rx3 and tx3 then i need to enable them in the port tab. or we dont have to?

Make sure to upgrade to the latest Crossfire firmware with the 'TBS Agent X' upgrader! This should save you some time and headaches! :D

I am just trying my first crossfire quad ever.. My Rossi stays in the 60’s and I just failsafed in the next room like 30 feet away.. Where should I start to troubleshoot it?? Maybe antenna orientation and that stuff??

I love the rssi dbm and lq in osd. Also i want a warning if im getting low at it. But how to set the proper rssi dbm minimal value ? Because if i turn on warning of rssi dbm it always shows up telling me rssi dbm low?

Question I did that like that but if i move my radio 1 m the rssi gies down 80 to 75 Thats weird

Hello! Great! what are the alert thresholds to configure in the Betaflight OSD? how to reverse the value of the RSSI: 0 to 150 rather than 150 to 0? thank you

Good to know. I still haven't upgraded to 4.x. Everything runs perfectly now i don't want to mess with it. I run all my switches through one channel so I'm not starving for channels. I have the radio set to audibly alert me when crsf modes change. The only feature that tempts me to upgrade to 4.x is the osd profiles for my gps enabled quads. Are there any other must have features recently introduced that are worth potentially wrecking finely tuned setups?

Great!

Oh finally they show the real values :) By the way, it also has 4 hz mode which is only useful for total geeks :)

Hey Joshua, would be nice to know how to set the right value for OSD RSSI Warning in Betaflight now because RSSI is now dopping faster than before where we set an aux channel to read LQ as RSSI. Do we know have to disable the value because its more accurate in reading rssi from crsf or can we still put a value into where it´s going to be critical?

I wish the LQ & RSSI thing had been in some sort of 'Crossfire Crash Course' video for people new to it because when I had a failsafe with it, people who saw the DVR footage said something was wrong with my RSSI because it was all over the place, and I had selected RSSI not LQ which is why I wasn't seeing 99% all the time, like I do now I selected LQ.

freaking cool ;)

I presently have Ch 7 (Aux 3) set on the Nano RX to LQ to get that in my OSD. I see what you are saying in the FC setup, but what do I do on the Nano RX, just remove the setting of LQ (etc) from any channel? ie - what should the configuration on the Nano RX look like? thx!

Bardwell HELP!! im getting the SNR value for rssi in my osd the LQ is working as expected but not getting the actual RSSI value just getting SNR i thought i was having low RSSI but figured out the value matches the SNR in the Taranis. is there a way to change this without using an AUX channel ? i know this is showing in dbi but i still cant get it to show the - value it just shows 78 not -78 what am i overlooking!

Nice one sir. For safe flight how much should be the LQ and DB?

Worked fine on my 6s! Cool! Thanks!!! Just wondered why the RSSI is not showing 99 but yours is also showing 80 something...

This doesn't seem to work right for me yet. I am on CF 3.23 and the RSSI won't go higher thank like 75% even right near me and LQ shows like 199. RSSI drops into the 20s and 30s while flying right near me. Went back to the aux channel and everything is working for RSSI just fine again. This is true for several quads and FCs so something is not right.

Great video, thanks for sharing! So I can use the D8 mode again :-) Do I have to disable "LQ" at the receivers channel setup (lua script)?

JB - i cant seem to see these values on the DJI FPV goggles? does this work ? thanks

Yes yes yes! This was really cool, I love it! But my symbol for Link quality is replaced by a (. What kind of font should I use to get it displayed properly?

I can't seem to get the lq icon to display in my osd, it just show's a "(" instead.. do I have to do something with fonts?

Thank you, JB. I dont understand why my crsf rssi only 45 🙏😀👍🍺❤️

does anyone know by chance if the FrSky R9M can/will do the same? Also, on the OSD tab (2:02), there are 3 rows of elements. What is the reason for only checking the first row of them?

I want OSD warning to flash when I reach low rssi, can I set it up on LQ, or does the warnings flash setting only work with rssi? And what sort of figure is a good level, 50 LQ? 100 LQ? Obviously before it failsafes..

Hi! It does work for frsky as well 😅:) I am using it since 4.1 appeared

cant get lq or rssi dbm to show up, but get changing rssi now. changed my rx channel 8 (aux 4) back to ch 8 from RSSI. followed your steps, but no luck?

Not sure when the Radix got this, but I peer reviewed this functionality in betaflight like 6 months ago.

I just got Crossfire and using it with Jumper T16. I have followed this video on getting RSSI/LQ on the OSD (without using the aux). However, I can't get LQ to show (RSSI works). I use DJI FPV Goggles.

So does that mean on the crossfire output channel I no longer need to set ch8 to LQ? Or is that still required to get LQ in OSD using method you outlined in this video.

Great video, but I had something odd happened to me. From out of box (new), no channel was set for RSSI, the Aux Channel for RSSI was disabled in BF, version was 4.2,Telemetry enabled, RSSI was on OSD, and only OSD of zero shows. Then, I set up the old way using an aux channel (channel 8 on radio, RSSI Aux 4 in BF), also turned on LQ, and the RSSI showed up. THEN, I reverted back to not using the aux channel as originally received, and the RSSI shows just fine. I'm glad it's working, but it seems like something had to kick start it to get the OSD to pull that Crossfire RSSI telemetry. Was this because I needed to discover sensors or something else? It always nags at me when I fix something, but don't know what I did.

2:19 for the Configurators Anthem!

With this method the RSSI Scale is not the TBS RSSI Scale to which we got used too... is there a way to have the TBS RSSI into the osd with this method?

Hi Joshua, Thanks for all your videos, they guided me through my first successfull 5" build from scratch! Question regarding this video: I use Crossfire, but when I set up the LQ and RRSI values in Betaflight, I just get "0" and low alarms on my OSD. Any guidance with this? Thanks!

My dji goggles read rssi at 99 constant ! I have set my rssi channel to lq. Is it even reading the lq or just stuck ? Do I need to switch back to rssi. ?

Thank you Joshua. Do the transmitter sound tracks still work if setting up OSD like this or must a channel still be used to activate voice warnings?

2:51 Did you just reference The Fifth Element? lol SUPER GREEN

Joshua, do you need to use exactly BTFL 4.1.0, or could it be a higher version? mine uses BTFL 4.1.2 and it ain't working. I use DJi Digital FPV Googles also, idk if it works with it?

Thanks for the vid Joshua. You forgot to mention that not all TBS firmware versions support this feature. I got my tbs tx/rx set in 2020 and it still has fw ver 2.42. And it does NOT work! More to say, we here at Russia have tbs agent blocked and can update FW only through a VPN 🤦‍♂️(dont ask me why ☻)

Need Help so I updated both rx tx crossfire, and running 4.1 but i can only get rssi not LQ on the DJI osd screen please Help ?

What's up with the 2 different RSSI readouts in your OSD, The one in the middle of the screen above LQ is obviously in dB, then you also have the RSSI in the bottom right corner, do you need both, are they different?

Nice! However it is not clear to me if I still need to put rssi and lq in the channel map of the nano rx setup via lua, so the receiver outputs these values? Or you can leave them out there too? Because betaflight has more than enough channels, cx only 12. Or this is only a osd improvement?

Omg..... 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣. Hope your feeling better. I've just got crossfire and educating myself My rssi is at 49....... ????

JB, this is Great and i got it working, but now my RSSI reads no more than 50% and fluctuates from there. LQ reads 300 and fluctuated accordingly. Before the change RSSI read 99..

I set this as well and it looks fine however the RSSI is jumping between 50% and 80%. when I set the aux channel for RSSI then the LQ is gone and the RSSI is back to 99% any reason why it happened?

Wow. Almost short and to the point. You feeling ok?

im having an issue. i just got iflight titan xl5 PNP. i connected XF nano rx correctly and am getting 99 rssi signal. did the betaflight stuff but for some reason no matter what i do im getting 0 Link quality on OSD and also link quality warning no matter what unless i turn off Link quality in warning tab otherwise it never leaves. i dont know what i should do. i have betaflight 4.1.2 for Target: BetaflightF4 its so annoying because i cant get LQ to show even though i have rssi/Lq enabled in XF tx and nano settings from radio. please give me some tips or help if possible i would appreciate it very much🙏

did LQ on betaflight 4.0.X and up not work properly with frsky? because ive been using that for a while and it seemed like it worked and was accurate. when my rssi signal was low the LQ dipped but not linear with the rssi and seemed independent.

Can somebody help me with the next problem. My osd RSSI value says 99 (perfect), but my RSSI dBm value stays at -130.... Am I overseeing something? Just followed all of this video. Multiple times, but don't get any further

Is it still good to use Dynamic power? I have a TBS Tango 2 pro.

Just followed the video and I get 0 LQ -130BD and a LOW RSSI on my OSD , ( it was set through aux before ). BF 4.1 CRSF 2.4 . what am I missing ?

Sir, I have a problem from zadig because i install different drivers not STM32 and now my keyboard is not working, can you help me please?

I've had mine set to lq for awhile now. But my osd only reads 99 percent as the highest. How does yours read 300?

I have no link quality in the osd tab!? Pls help

Community, i need you guys’ help! I am getting into fpv but i heard banggood is hit or miss. Whats a reliable website to order fpv stuff from? (Emax tinyhawk)

Can I just check this does not impact the Telemetry sensor info in the Taranis for any logical switches?

Okay, I'm coming over from the R9 system which I got running flawlessly and could go forever , but I wanted to push it even further so I invested in the crossfire mini , and put a diversity Nano in my quad and set up rssi this way with everything updated to the latest firmware, 500 milliwatts and the quad basically beside me the reception never goes above 70% I almost threw it in the trash before I realized other people were having this issue? Do you know what's going on here?

@Joshua Bardwell do you no longer set a Crossfire Rx channel (CHx) for LQ and/or RSSI with BF4.1? If a channel is set on the Crossfire Rx now, does it need to be disabled to use just the OSD method? You forgot got to mention that part! Arghh!

Awesome! How hard would it be to also get SNR in there for us RF nerds?